“Weekend Update” took rapid-fire aim at President-elect Donald Trump and people in his orbit, from RFK Jr. to Elon Musk to Matt Gaetz.
But after all, “Saturday Night Live‘s” faux newscast opened with a bit in regards to the healthcare CEO killer story that has rivited the nation since United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was overtly shot in Midtown Manhattan on Dec. 4. “Weekend Update” anchor Colin Jost noted that the country has been engaged “in the fragile, sensitive debate over who will play this guy within the Netflix miniseries.”
Jost also noted that the while the accused shooter, Luigi Mangione, is suspected of harboring hostility toward corporate America, the facts of the case don’t line up. “Yet he went to Starbucks before the shooting and was caught at a McDonald’s — perhaps his biggest crime was hypocrisy,” Jost said.
Jost and his co-anchor Michael Che then alternated zingers about Trump and his associates. Noting that Trump was named Man of the Yr by Time magazine, Jost observed that the popularity was appropriate because “nobody has taken as much of our time.”
Che commented on the news earlier this week that controversial former GOP congressman Matt Gaetz is moving to One America Network to host a political talk show. Gaetz resigned his seat under the pressure from an ongoing ethics investigation. Last month, he was forced to withdraw from consideration as Trump’s Attorney General after it became clear that Gaetz, who has been accused of sexual behavior with underage girls, didn’t have the support within the Senate for confirmation despite Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement.
Gaetz’s recent OAN series will probably be “covering all the pieces from quinceañeras to prom night jitters,” Che said.
Amongst other political barbs:
On RFK Jr.’s drive to finish polio vaccine mandates, Che quipped, “Since it ain’t Christmas without some Tiny Tims.”
On Elon Musk stating that Trump and the late Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsberg agreed on the problem of abortion, he cracked, “I never even knew Trump got her pregnant.”
On Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson fulfilling her dream to seem on Broadway along with her one-night-only appearance within the musical “& Juliet,” Che said it happened “while [Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas blew everyone off the stage in ‘Kinky Boots.’ ”
The “Weekend Update” segment also featured lengthy segments with forged members Andrew Dismukes and Jane Wickline. Dismukes riffed on the court ruling out of the U.K. that got attention this week with the choice that calling a person bald equated to harassment. Wickline delivered one among her signature songs that riffed on Sabrina Carpenter and Wickline’s effort to spark web rumors about her sexuality with the intention to boost her profession.
“A number of people on the web like to start out juicy rumors about whether pop stars are gay. When will even one person do this about me,” Wickline sang.
